The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-08-08

1.-THE Fatal Three" 10 the blood. curdlinp
title Of Miss Btaddon'a forthcoming novel
Mr.: Edgar Fawcett's play, 1.-THE Earl
which Jailed to please Boston and waa
the subject Of divers wrathfut letters-will
soon be brought out In book form by
ricknor. ,Sl9'l,rTa n
Mr.. John T. Wheelwright, one OF the
cleverest OF Boston's young authors, has
written what Ia said to bs q witty satire
on the literary and aesthetic Alterations
OF his city. m -
De luxe editions OF modern authors are
said to DO o drug on the English market.
A copy Of the very expensive do luxe edi.
ton OF Dickens works was lately sold at
auction In Manchester for only sos &9J
Ten editions OF Philip James Bailey's
"Festus" have been published in England
and tho old poet Ia now correcting the
proof Of the eleventh. Many editions
were brought out In America, for the poet
had long and wide popularity here. {sa
The pondeIous work which that cheer.
iul book maker, Mr.. Dn Chaillu, Is about
to bring out Ia entitled "The Viking
Aye; the Early History, Manners and
Customs Of the Ancestors Of the English.
Speaking Nations, illustrated from the
Antiquities discovered In Mounds, Cairns
and Boys, IS well as from the Ancient
sagas and Eddss." N
The Boston Literary IEorM attributes
the insufficient uss by Southern writer's
OF their rich material to the foolish and
hssty praise of the North. Thers is Just.
Ice and common sense in this view. The
almost crazy commentator which hiss
been bestoged upon what Is altar all
slight and evsnescant, furnishes no incen.
tive to continuous eHort and honest aspi-
ration. i.R,i a..
A curious phase Of Northern enthusiasm
for Southern work 10 the occasional failure
to apply It In the proper quarter. Robert
Malcolm Johns.on's iniliitable sketches
Of Southern life-ske.ches which hera and
there show touchea worthy Of Cervantes
have not he'd justice, while MIR. Pages
later dialect stories have beea laudcd far
above their merits. The dialect vein has
grown very weariaome. 5.'it7a ~
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